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Can anyone translate this from Spanish to English please?
My son is doing his Spanish homework (GCSE Level) and has to answer some questions from this conversation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c53tZnPK5Go Can someone please translate for me as i have no idea about Spanish - he reckons he's done it all BUT it's youth club night and he's desperate to go, i dont want him to be…
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Primary school putting kids "in the naughty corner" if they need the toilet
I have recently learned that my children's primary school (very small village school) is putting children in the naughty corner if they use the toilet outside of break times. My youngest (6 yrs) is very shy, always wanting to please type of child. She has had 4 accidents over the past 4 school days, which is totally out of…
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Not sure if this is the right place to post!
Hi all I'm not sure if this is the right forum in which to post this, or indeed if it's the right site!! But, I'm hoping someone with some knowledge of the law (if the law covers this) may be able to advise. So, here goes .... My 13 year old stepdaughter left her alcoholic mother last July to live with us. We have full…
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Am i being selfish
Im 30 and my gf is 26 and we have a 7 month baby girl. i work full time whilst she stays home and looks after our daughter. she lost her job before falling pregnant so she tells me she is only recieving £40 a month benefits because of my wage. we live with her mam who recently seperated from her husband so couldnt afford…
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Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now
I've got myself into a situation from which I'm struggling to find a winning solution. Firstly, I'm married with 3 wonderful children. My wife and I get on, but our relationship has been chaste without any intimacy, even a kiss and a cuddle, for a few years. I have tried, believe me, and failed. And while I love my wife,…
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Do you, or anyone you know, shoot living things for sport?
Unknown to us at the time, we moved into an area that has pheasant shooting. The pheasants strut about in the local gardens and fields every day, we have several that visit our garden in particular. We then hear all the bangs of them being shot in the next field and tbh it's really bothering me. I've never agreed with fox…
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How much do you hear from your neighbours?
Just wondering how much you hear from your neighbours - especially if you are 'attached' to them (e.g. terrace/semi detached/flat). Can you hear talking? Shouting? Walking around? Running around? Music? Arguments? etc. Thin walls/thick walls?
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Primary School PE Changng Room Arrangements
Hi all Just after finding out if anyone else knows what the arrangements are in primary schools re getting ready for PE. My DD is 10 and in year 5. All the children, boys and girls, have to get changed in front of each other for PE in the classroom. Is this normal practice for year 5 children?? My DD has boobs (albeit…
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whats peoples pet peeves
a slight rant here! :rotfl:my bil goes on the same forum as me and chats to me on facebook (actually I avoid him now because of this) and instead of putting full stops or other punctuation in the sentence he puts ...... every sentence has ....... following it ..... and its so irritating! Its got to the point now where I…
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School Uniform?
Hi I am hoping someone on here will be able to point me in the right direction. I have 2 children at the local secondary school, the school is in quite a well to do area and achieves outstanding from ofsted everytime they go in. Predominantly the area is small villages/hamlets with quite wealthy parents. I am not one of…
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Appalling moneysaving change of lifestyle!
Well, after being ever-so-careful with our pennies, and having just achieved a lovely promotion at work (I work full-time) which has got me in an absolutely ideal position career-wise, I have now discovered that I am stupidly, and accidentally pregnant, with baby No.3. Child No.1 is 5 1/2 and in Yr 1 at school, child No. 2…
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stag party- how to say i dont want to go?
Hi all need a bit of advice: I used to work in a large store and i had 3 particularly close friends, lets call them mr s, mr m and mr c. there were various reasons that the 3 werent all friends with eachother, the 2 that fell out with eachother are mr m and mr s, both getting married this year. mr s is my best friend, i am…
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Uncle passed away without leaving a will...
Hi, My mum's uncle sadly passed away last week, and unfortunately didn't leave a will (he was a bit of a recluse, had a mountain of unopened letters including lots of unclaimed stocks, shares, bonds, Christmas cards, birthday cards and everything else) - his wife who died around 10 years before said they were going to…
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Messy Divorce
Im in a bit of need of some advice and this forum has helped me out so much in the past so was wondering if anyone out there can steer me in the right direction. This is a bit of a complex matter so please bear with me. Ok so me and my husband split up back last year around June time. He was seeing someone behind my back…
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Smoking around kids .... how bad??
I just wanted to check with some impartial people whether I am being rational and see if anyone has any suggestions. My ex's partner smokes in the house when my 5 year old is staying there and I hate it but not sure what to do. I don't smoke, never have never will, and would never date anyone that did. When I was pregnant…
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"Banter" makes me want to quit my job.
I tend to get made fun of by some of the males that I hang around with, but I really can't handle banter. I think it can be like a kind of socially acceptable bullying. I work a second job in a pub to pay my way through uni. I work every day of the week and I'm knackered, but the pub job pays me a lovely 300 quid a month…
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anyone else have a child with diabetes?
My 13yr old DD was diagnosed in Oct last year and is feeling very resentfully, I know things will settle down, but wondered if any other parents had any advice or stories. Its type 1 my DD has which means her panceras does not produce insulin.
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Advice on Power of Attourney desparately required
Dear All I wonder if anyone can help or has the same dilemma as me. My mother is 79 and has recently been diagnosed with Vascular Dementia. She is getting steadily worse and we are very worried that she will be unable to look after herself in the near future. We have been worried about her memory for some time and have…
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school help
my son is in yr7 and hates it . Apart from getting him to school is there anything else i legally need to do? I am thinking of refusing to send him for the lesson that are causing problems / declining calls and not signing dentions background is he always struggles he is on a iep and used to be able to sharped pencil and…
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I can't find an asperger's link :(
Folks, i was reading t'other day & someone had put up a link to the diagnostic criteria for Asperger's in a kind of tick box format. And now i can't find it :( Has anyone else seen it & which thread was it on please? Am currently involved in a minor dispute with youngest's school as he meets the criteria for the NAGC but…
